Jeffrey D. Sachs
Recent articles by Jeffrey D. Sachs
23 April 2025
Jeffrey Sachs on the source of the Syrian tragedy
Jeffrey Sachs on the role of the US and the CIA in the tragic events in Syria, direct from the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Türkiye earlier this month.
5 April 2025
Trump's absurd trade policies will impoverish Americans and harm the world
US President Donald Trump is trashing the world trade system over a basic economic fallacy. He wrongly claims that America’s trade deficit is caused by the rest of the world ripping off the US, repeatedly stating things such as, Over the decades, they ripped us off like no country has never been ripped off in history…”
9 March 2025
Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating a lasting peace in Ukraine
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the US and UK talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements.
27 February 2025
Jeffrey Sachs' explosive address at the EU Parliament sends shockwaves across Europe!
Jeffrey Sachs, the American economist and public policy analyst who is also a professor at Columbia University, gave an unconventional address to the EU Parliament last week. Below is a short version of his comments; the full version is here.
13 January 2025
The UN can end the Middle East conflict by welcoming Palestine as a member
The June 2025 UN Conference on Palestine can be the long-awaited turning point for the region.
14 December 2024
How the US and Israel destroyed Syria and called it peace
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal.
9 December 2024
"WHY are we doing Netanyahu’s bidding?" Jeffrey Sachs on Syria, Assad and Putin
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, having become a staple of the disruptive discourse that is so valued on Uncensored, joins Piers Morgan yet again for a one-to-one interview on the state of the world. The most shocking development over recent days has been the rapid advance of Syrian rebel troops and their capture of the City of Aleppo. Sachs tries to explain that the conflict is extremely complicated, but that the main culprit is none other than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
26 November 2024
What ails America – and how to fix it
America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s victory is very easy to understand. It was a vote against the status quo. Whether Trump will fix—or even attempt to fix—what really ails America remains to be seen.
23 November 2024
Defending the U.S. from the Israel Lobby
Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined America, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion.
5 November 2024
The BRICS Summit should mark the end of neocon delusions
Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates.
8 October 2024
It is the lack of a two-state solution that most threatens Israel
As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracised by the international community, and also faces grave economic and military threats as the regional war expands.
4 October 2024
Israel's ideology of genocide must be confronted and stopped
Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.
22 August 2024
Accusations of US regime-change operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh warrant UN attention
The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan in Pakistan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.
3 August 2024
Jeffrey Sachs: "US Subservient to Israel"
A MUST-WATCH 29-minute interview in which Jeffrey Sachs tells it like it is and as few others dare to tell it.
26 July 2024
10 principles for perpetual peace in the 21st century
The United Nations-based structures are fragile and in need of an urgent upgrade; we should consider this one at the U.N. Summit of the Future in September.
16 July 2024
NATO and the deadly strategy of neoconservatism
For the sake of America's security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favour of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.
10 July 2024
Save Ukraine from American meddling
Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. Sadly, this point is not understood by Ukrainian politicians such as Oleg Dunda, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who recently wrote an oped against my repeated call for negotiations.
9 July 2024
The Summit of the Future
The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. Sustainable development is our declared goal, meaning economic prosperity, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace. Yet our reality is continued poverty amidst plenty, widening inequalities, deepening environmental crises, and war. To get back on track, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has wisely called for a Summit of the Future (SOTF) at the United Nations on September 22-23, a call that has been endorsed by the 193 UN Member states.
21 June 2024
Why won't the US help negotiate a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine?
For goodness' sake, negotiate!
9 June 2024
The perils and promise of the emerging multipolar world
The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the West in industrialisation are now making up for lost time.
2 June 2024
Presidents who gamble with nuclear Armageddon
Each of the last five presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, have brought us closer to the brink. We desperately need leaders with a knack for peace who can steer the nation, and the world, toward a more secure and less dangerous future.
31 May 2024
Everyone listening should understand: Ukraine will never join NATO short of a nuclear war
Tucker Carlson interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the Untold History of the Cold War and the war in Ukraine.
17 May 2024
America’s geopolitical position is crumbling
As an increasing number of countries move to recognise Palestine and welcome its U.N. membership, the Israel lobby is being hit by a pincer movement. On the one side, American voters, especially young American voters, are aghast at Israel’s brutality. On the other side, America’s geopolitical position is crumbling.
10 May 2024
Peace starts with Palestine’s UN membership
On May 10, all member states should vote to admit the State of Palestine as the 194th member of the United Nations.
30 April 2024
War parties, the peace candidate, and the US election
The Democrats and the Republicans are outdoing each other to prove who can get us to World War III fastest. Joe Biden and the Congressional Democrats are making a convincing bid to be the leading warmongers. The Congressional Democrats just voted unanimously in a vote of 210 – 0 to extend the Ukraine War with another $61 Billion to kill more Russians and Ukrainians, and by a lopsided majority of 173-37 for another $14 Billion to extend Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Donald Trump weighed in before the vote that Ukraine’s survival and strength is “important to us”,...
19 April 2024
If the US and UK have any shame, they will welcome Palestine as a UN member State
This week, the U.S. and U.K. have the chance to correct decades of their blatant geopolitical errors in the Israel-Palestine conflict by welcoming Palestine as the 194th United Nations member state. More than any other countries, the U.S. and U.K. have wrecked the Middle East through their non-stop meddling and imperial arrogance. This week they have the chance to make some amends.
9 April 2024
China's economic success in face of growing U.S., EU protectionism
The Western press is filled with stories of foreboding about the Chinese economy. We are told regularly that China's fast growth is over, that China's data are manipulated, that a Chinese financial crisis looms, and that China will suffer the same stagnation as Japan during the past quarter century. This is U.S. propaganda, not reality. Yes, the Chinese economy faces headwinds - mainly created by the United States. Yet China can - and I believe will - overcome the U.S.-created headwinds and continue on its path of rapid economic development.
24 March 2024
The urgency of Diplomacy
Now is the time for talks that will bring us closer to peace and away from a deadly and destructive war with no end in sight.
12 March 2024
Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza
This will stop when the United States stops providing the munitions to Israel. It will not stop by any self-control in Israel. There is none in this government.
8 March 2024
Achieving the Two-State solution in the wake of Gaza war
Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the United Nations the starting point, not the ending point.
13 February 2024
How the CIA destabilises the world
There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international law or U.S. law. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous. Its unaccountability means that the CIA and president run foreign policy without any public scrutiny. Congress is a doormat, a sideshow.
9 February 2024
The US plan to kill more Ukrainians
Biden and Schumer's proposed $61 billion for the Ukraine war will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the physical destruction of Ukraine.
2 February 2024
The US toppling of Imran Khan
A principal instrument of U.S. foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the U.S. government to bring down the government of another country. There are strong reasons to believe that U.S. actions led to the removal from power of Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022, followed by his arrest on trumped-up charges of corruption and espionage, and sentencing this week to 10 years imprisonment on the espionage charge. The political objective is to block Pakistans most popular politician from returning to power in the elections on February 8.
16 January 2024
Gaza's biblical apocalypse: America rudderless, Biden a foreign policy failure
Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesnt even try.
2 January 2024
Saving Israel by ending its war in Gaza
Israels brutality in Gaza is becoming a true threat to Israels survival.
27 December 2023
US Foreign Policy is a scam built on corruption
It is the urgent task of the American people to overhaul a foreign policy that is so broken, corrupted, and deceitful that it is burying the government in debt while pushing the world closer to nuclear Armageddon.
12 December 2023
UN honour, US shame
The nearly unanimous vote in the UN Security Council on Friday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is a moment of honour for the United Nations and shame for the United States. By voting to stop Israels war on Gaza by a vote of 13 yes, 1 no (US), and 1 abstention (UK), the vast majority put itself on the side of international law. The US stood alone against international law, with its sidekick and tutor in imperial brutality, the United Kingdom, dutifully abstaining.
21 November 2023
UN Security Council can end Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, and Sahel wars
All P5 members, and indeed the whole world, suffer adverse consequences from the continuation of these wars. All are paying a price in terms of financial burdens, economic instability, risks of terrorism, and risks of a wider war. For the sake of global peace, let the Council now choose to end these wars.
15 November 2023
US ranks last on adherence to UN Charter
At the very bottom of a new index ranking 74 countries adhering to the UN Charter is the United States, with Israel being the second from the bottom. Both countries are frequently at odds with the UN multilateral system. The US needs to recognise that the UN system, operating under the UN Charter, is the true rule-based international order.
17 October 2023
Saving Israel and Palestine through the UN
Following Hamass heinous attack on innocent Israeli civilians, senior Israeli military strategistsare threateningthe ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This would be another Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), akin to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. If Israel commits massive war crimes in Gaza in the face of global calls for restraint, Israel would put its fundamental national security at risk.
5 October 2023
Beyond the neocon debacle to peace in Ukraine
We are entering the end stage of the 30-year US neocon debacle in Ukraine. The neocon plan to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO has failed. Decisions now by the US and Russia will matter enormously for peace, security, and wellbeing for the entire world.
21 September 2023
NATO admits that Ukraine war is a war of NATO expansion
During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting US government lying about the war in order to protect politicians who would be embarrassed by the truth. A half century later, during the Ukraine War, the manure is piled even higher.
1 September 2023
The US economic war on China
Chinas economy is slowing down. Current forecasts put Chinas GDP growth in 2023 at less than 5%, below the forecasts made last year and far below the high growth rates that China enjoyed until the late 2010s. The Western press is filled with Chinas supposed misdeeds: a financial crisis in the real-estate market, a general overhang of debt, and other ills. Yet much of the slowdown is the result of US measures that aim to slow Chinas growth. Such US policies violate World Trade Organisation rules and are a danger to global prosperity. They should be stopped.
18 July 2023
The real history of the war in Ukraine: A chronology of events and case for diplomacy
The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Bidens lies and hiding history from the public.
7 July 2023
An Asia-Pacific NATO: fanning the flames of war
My country, the U.S., is unrecognisable. Im not sure who runs the country. I do not believe it is the president., says Jeffrey Sachs in a speech at a Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) seminar, Melbourne, Australia. U.S. actions are putting us on a path to war with China in the same way that U.S. actions did in Ukraine.
2 July 2023
US politics, climate change, and the Paris Finance Summit
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and French President Emmanuel Macron invited world leaders to Paris on June 22-23 to reach a new global pact to finance the fight against poverty and human-induced climate change. All kudos for the ambition, yet few dollars were put on the table. To an important extent, the continuing global failure to finance the fight against poverty and climate change reflects the failings of US politics, since the US, at least for the moment, remains at the centre of the global financial system.
29 June 2023
US-China relations and the decline of US dominance
What is the path to peace for the war in Ukraine? Is America still powerful enough to impose global order? The US has just 4.1% of the world's population, while the BRICS countries have 41.5%. In this conversation with economist Jeffrey Sachs, we discuss the origins of the conflict in Ukraine and NATO enlargement, US-China relations, and the decline of US dominance.
7 June 2023
How JFK would pursue peace in Ukraine
Sixty years after Kennedy's commencement address at American University, crucial lessons must still be learned about how to end dangerous conflicts in a nuclear world.
25 May 2023
The war in Ukraine was provoked and why that matters to achieve peace
By recognising that the question of NATO enlargement is at the centre of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.